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The Arctic Russia and Eurasia Security policy. Security policy Defence North America Finnish missions began their operations abroad even before the Ministry was established. The first reports available on the online service are from London, dating back to January At the time, Finland did not even have an official mission in — let alone diplomatic relations with — Great Britain.

In , reports were also sent from Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo and Berlin. Reports from all of these are available on the online service. The number of reports and digitised pages varies considerably by mission. In , for example, London produced almost 1, pages of material, whereas the figures for Berlin and Stockholm stood at and less than ten, respectively. In total, the online service contains 36, pages of material.

The digitised material now being published includes official reports from the missions. In addition, the missions submitted information to Helsinki by letter, telegram and informal correspondence between members of the old-boy network.

These are not included on the online service. The topics discussed in the reports are similar to those covered in the material that Finnish missions abroad are currently producing. The material also covers discussion notes and press reviews.

For a long time, reporting was carried out by the envoy heading the mission. The most competent envoys produced the most competent analyses. On the whole, the archived material shows that there were no regulations on or learnt models in place for reporting formats.